Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender

Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62

By: Langston Hughes (Editor), Christopher Santis (Editor)

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Langston Hughes is well known as a poet, playwright, novelist, social activist, communist sympathizer, and brilliant member of the Harlem Renaissance. He has been referred to as the "Dean of Black Letters" and the "poet low-rate of Harlem."

But it was as a columnist for the famous African-American newspaper the Chicago Defender that Hughes chronicled the hopes and despair of his people. For twenty years, he wrote forcefully about international race relations, Jim Crow, the South, white supremacy, imperialism and fascism, segregation in the armed forces, the Soviet Union and communism, and African-American art and culture. None of the racial hypocrisies of American life escaped his searing, ironic prose.

This is the first collection of Hughes's nonfiction journalistic writings. For readers new to Hughes, it is an excellent introduction; for those familiar with him, it gives new insights into his poems and fiction.

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''The most persistent criticism of Langston Hughes has been that he was not a thinker, that he had no ideas to speak of ... A collection of this kind is needed to do justice to the often inspired quality of Hughes's weekly journalistic writing and to expand our sense of his interests and ideas. De Santis's is the first book to bring this material within easy reach.'' -- Arnold Rampersad.

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Social Groups Ethnic Studies Black & Asian Studies

Acknowledgments
Editorial Method
Introduction	p. 1
No Half-Freedoms	p. 25
Key Chains with No Keys	p. 27
Get Together, Minorities	p. 29
The See-Saw of Race	p. 31
Sorry Spring	p. 33
U.S. Likes Nazis and Franco Better Than Its Own Negroes	p. 34
A Sentimental Journey to Cairo, Illinois	p. 36
The Dilemma of the Negro Teacher Facing Desegregation	p. 38
How to Integrate without Danger of Intermarriage	p. 40
A Brickbat for Education - A Kiss for the Bedroom in Dixie	p. 41
The Man of the Year for 1958	p. 43
Sit Tight - and Don't Squirm	p. 45
Are You Spanish?	p. 49
Doc, Wait! I Can't Sublimate!	p. 51
Theaters, Clubs, and Negroes	p. 53
Adventures in Dining	p. 55
Encounter at the Counter	p. 56
Freight	p. 58
With the Crumbling of the Old Chain, Jim Crow Crumbles, Too	p. 60
MacArthur Lives in the Waldorf-Astoria; Gilbert Lives in Jail	p. 62
From Rampart Street to Harlem I Follow the Trial of the Blues	p. 63
In Racial Matters in St. Louis "De Sun Do Move"	p. 65
Old Customs Die Hard	p. 67
Jim Crow's Epitaph	p. 69
Letter to the South	p. 75
Hold Tight! They're Crazy-White	p. 77
Nazi and Dixie Nordics	p. 78
Fair Play in Dixie	p. 80
Dear Old Southland	p. 82
The Death of Bilbo	p. 84
The Sunny South	p. 86
Far from Living Up to Its Name, Dixie Has Neither Manners nor Shame	p. 87
The Quaint, Queer, Funny Old South Has Its Ways	p. 89
Concerning a Great Mississippi Writer and the Southern Negro	p. 91
The Same Old Fight All Over Again in Dixie	p. 92
Jokes on Our White Folks	p. 97
Letter to White Shopkeepers	p. 99
Suggestions to White Shopkeepers	p. 101
The Snake in the House	p. 103
Nerve of Some White Folks	p. 105
Our White Folks: Shame!	p. 107
Our White Folks: So?	p. 109
Our White Folks: Boo!	p. 110
Those Little Things	p. 112
Harlem's Bitter Laughter	p. 113
The Folk Lore of Race Relations	p. 115
America after the War	p. 121
The World after the War	p. 123
The Detroit Blues	p. 124
Photographs from Teheran	p. 126
Colored Lived There Once	p. 128
Invasion!!!!	p. 130
Over-Ripe Apple	p. 132
The Animals Must Wonder	p. 134
The Fall of Berlin	p. 135
He'd Leave Him Dying	p. 141
Ask for Everything	p. 143
If Dixie Invades Europe	p. 145
Gall and Glory	p. 147
Hey, Doc! I Got Jim Crow Shock!	p. 149
Fifty Young Negroes	p. 151
The Purple Heart	p. 153
War and a Sorry Fear	p. 155
V-J Night in Harlem	p. 156
North, South, and the Army	p. 158
The Red Army	p. 163
Army of Liberation	p. 165
The Soviet Union	p. 167
The Soviet Union and Jews	p. 168
The Soviet Union and Color	p. 170
The Soviet Union and Women	p. 172
The Soviet Union and Health	p. 174
Faults of the Soviet Union	p. 176
Light and the Soviet Union	p. 178
Are You a Communist?	p. 180
A Thorn in the Side	p. 182
A Portent and a Warning to the Negro People from Hughes	p. 184
Old Ghost Appears before the Un-American Committee and Refuses to Remove His Hat	p. 185
The Accusers' Names Nobody Will Remember, but History Records Du Bois	p. 187
Why Ill Winds and Dark Clouds Don't Scare Negroes Much	p. 188
Child of Charm	p. 193
Music at Year's End	p. 195
The Duke Plays for Russia	p. 197
On Leaping and Shouting	p. 199
Art and Integrity	p. 200
Art and the Heart	p. 202
Words to Remember: Stein's	p. 204
Return of the Native - Musically Speaking - the Drums Come to Harlem	p. 205
The Influence of Negro Music on American Entertainment	p. 207
How a Poem Was Born in a Jim Crow Car Rattling from Los Angeles to New Orleans	p. 208
Slavery and Leadbelly Are Gone, but the Old Songs Go Singing On	p. 210
Jazz: Its Yesterday, Today and Its Potential Tomorrow	p. 212
"House Rent Parties" Are Again Returning to Harlem	p. 214
That Sad, Happy Music Called Jazz	p. 216
Why and Wherefore	p. 221
Don't Be a Food Sissy	p. 223
On Missing a Train	p. 225
Saturday Night	p. 227
Random Thoughts on Nice People	p. 229
On Human Loneliness	p. 231
My Day	p. 233
My Nights	p. 235
New York and Us	p. 236
From the International House, Bronzeville Seems Far Far Away	p. 238
Notes	p. 241
Bibliography	p. 253
Index	p. 255
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